"This guy likes to have pizza for breakfast."
Would translate into:
All people that are identicle to this guy are people who like to have pizza for breakfast.
"Ive seen that turtle climb a chain link fence."
Would translate into:
Some turtles are creatures able to climb chain link fences."
Really though, check it out.
He looks like a snapping turtle.
Would translate into:
All turtles that look similar to him are snapping turtles.
I really like the snapping turtle. He is clearly determined to get over that fence. It appears to me that the categorical syllogisms are correct, but I am not quite positive. Maybe if you try taking the original statements from an article, it will be more clear as to whether or not you have correctly stated the categorical syllogisms.
ReplyDeleteCrazy turtle! Maybe add a middle term. Crazy!, so then it would be all turtles that climb fences are turtles that are crazy. I have a Venn I did for this.
ReplyDeleteOr: "All things that look like that are things that resemble snapping turtles."
ReplyDeleteDon't fence me in! If this sentence is a statement, its standard form would be:
"All things identical to me are things that ought not to be fenced in."